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roadway Definition

road·way (-wā′)

noun

a road; specif., that part of a road traveled on by vehicles

roadway Usage Examples

Preposition: on

side: Continue up this lane past the community center then turn down the small unmade roadway on the left hand side.

Adjective modifier

  • high-risk: You have the high-risk roadways you have an accident student drivers with.
  • underground: Come along and see the changing rooms, the warm-up area, the underground roadway and the players ' tunnel.
  • temporary: More than 5km of temporary roadway is laid down in the park.
  • narrow: The restored original arch is below the narrow roadway.
  • concrete: A UXB pierced the concrete roadway of the South Dock, 60 ' from the NW corner of the Hendon Dock.
  • ancient: Immediately in front of the tombs traces survive of the same kind of ancient roadways visible in front of the North Tombs.

Converse of object

  • cobble: The long houses were often in pairs facing each other across a cobbled roadway.
  • cross: This was the last train that ever crossed that fatal roadway.
  • block: He drove around searching and suddenly spotted something blocking the roadway ahead.
  • carry: The space alongside the walls has been filled and concrete retaining walls were being constructed to carry the roadway toward the bridge.
  • raise: The property can be found behind a gate just where this raised roadway meets the High Street on the left hand side.
  • leave: After a while, Teal'c held up his hand, and the Lieutenant left the roadway as the rest halted.

Noun used with modifier

  • access: One main access roadway enters the reserve from the Water Executive facilities around the filter house.
  • level: Note the relatively slender piers and rounded cutwaters, evidence of French influence on bridge design, as is the level roadway.

Preposition: in

front: She had been approached by Mr John to put up £ 10,000 to construct a roadway in front of her property.

Modifies a noun

  • system: MIT also has experience posing and evaluating traffic management strategies in real roadway systems.
  • network: Travel demand, which generates the traffic volumes on the roadway network.
  • support: Two halves of an arched girder roadway support, bolted together with fishplates.
  • deck: German codes were changed in the 1980s, omitting limitations on tensile stresses in concrete roadway decks under service conditions.

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